Mobile devices are becoming the dominant
mode of information access despite being
cumbersome to input text using small key-
boards and browsing web pages on small
screens. We present Qme!, a speech-based
question-answering system that allows for
spoken queries and retrieves answers to the
questions instead of web pages. We present
bootstrap methods to distinguish dynamic
questions from static questions and we show
the benefits of tight coupling of speech recog-
nition and retrieval components of the system.